Amazon the Disruptor
What is Amazon.com Inc., exactly? If you answered “an online book retailer,” then you haven’t been paying attention for like,...
Insider Gift Tips for your favorite Traders
It might have been almost 60 degrees this past weekend, but don’t let that lull you into a false sense of complacency: You have less...
2017 Top stock picks? Use My Time Machine
No, don’t buy those ‘best stocks to own in 2017’ Barry Ritholtz Washington Post, December 11 2016 Each year...
Fun with Forecasting!
One of the things I failed to learn after writing a book was the simple fact that methodically demonstrating a thing with data and...
Winter Reading: 10 Books to get you thru the cold
New Year’s is fast approaching, along with cold and snowy weather. That’s when I begin to think about the books I want to enjoy...
About those “Best Stock Picks” for next year…
My Sunday Washington Post Business Section column is out. This week, we look at the annual silliness that is the...
Putting the Minimum Wage Debate into Context
Minimum-Wage Foes Tripped Up by Facts Boosting the floor on pay doesn’t always cost jobs or force businesses to shut. Bloomberg,...
Tversky and Kahneman Changed How We Think
Michael Lewis’ Portrait of Two Men Who Changed the World Michael Lewis’ latest book profiles psychologists Daniel Kahneman...
Mansions Don’t Produce Much Alpha
I almost let an article about how great luxury real estate has performed sneak by without comment until I saw a dubious comparison to the...